Big moves are what make the game of Big Brother go around. But playing too hard too fast will get any gutsy player ousted from the competition early – especially when first impressions haven’t even fully marinated yet.

For 36-year-old Toronto-based business owner Andrew Miller, his fervent need to stir up the house with immediate drastic moves wound up alienating him from the majority alliance and despite his best efforts, he became the second houseguest eliminated from Big Brother Canada following a unanimous vote of 10-0.

“I played an authentic game,” Miller said the morning after his eviction, before throwing some shade at the players responsible for his ouster. “They weren’t really playing Big Brother. They were just hanging out waiting for the game to start.”

Tensions began on week one when Andrew tried to sway the house into saving Rozina Yaqub from eviction. His passionate attempt to change the votes was read as aggressive and uncomfortable by some members of the house, who soon began to isolate themselves from his big personality with the hopes of targeting the mesh marina-wearing houseguest next.

Even though Andrew’s closest ally Ryan Ballantine secured the Head of Household win, the young alliance still managed to convince the fire safety technician to put the Scarborough-based businessman on the block alongside Hamza Hatoum, sealing his own friend’s fate.

“Ryan is my boy, but I literally begged him, like ‘Bro, it makes no sense.’ He was kind of like a mad scientist without the lab. But he was dead wrong for what he did to his boy,” Andrew laughed.

But the more he tried to talk his way out of his situation, the more helpless it became, breeding even more tensions in the house. And after failing to secure the Power of Veto at the week’s Tomb Raider-themed competition, it became clear that Andrew should start packing.

“It’s a little cold. I tried my best to be as positive and upbeat and optimistic. The week earlier, I was cooking for everyone, having great conversations and giving out a lot of hugs but everyone kind of just switched up on me. For me, it was shocking,” he said.

“I guess when you have a bunch of young people that are used to swiping and un-friending people, they probably don’t know how to handle when someone actually looks them in the eye.”

On eviction night, after the votes were read, Andrew immediately jumped up and headed out the door without saying goodbye to any of his former roommates. While the exit was a dramatic ending to his BBCAN story, he assures that he has no hard feelings.

“There’s definitely no bad blood between me and the people in the house. I wasn’t trying to sit around and have the fake hugs and shoulder shrugs so I said, let’s just get out of here as soon as I can. There are better things waiting for me outside the house.”

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